I work providing technical support to at least 1000 people on campus, and lately (over the past two years), I've been seeing a LOT of hard drive failures. Most don't seem to be from people mistreating their laptops by shaking, dropping, banging, etc. Many of the computers never even move away from the desks that they sit on. I fail to understand why they are investing in air bags as opposed to making their hard drives more reliable in the first place. Don't get me wrong...I think this is a great idea, but I think their energy would be better spent in improving the quality of the hard drives themselves.
This is possibly the best product out there even though the code is apparently very convoluted. It is open source, so you can modify it to your heart's delight. We use it for practically every single group that provides support to the different departments. We used to use Remedy, but nearly all of the groups have moved away from that in favor of RT.
knowing Apple, I doubt you'll get Mac OS X to work on it
Totally. Not only that, but I believe this is even against the license that Apple has for Mac OS X. I don't think you're legally allowed to run it on non-Apple hardward. (Someone do correct me if I'm wrong, though, as I'm too lazy to dig up my license.)
I really have noticed a dramatic decrease in the amount of spam I've received in the past 4-5 days.
Wish I could say the same, but I'd say at this point, more than 50% of my spam is in Chinese, though approximately 600 spams in 5 days isn't too bad for me (currently checking spam folders).
Recently, in the past few days, I've especially been getting pounded with virus bounces, virus emails, and virus notices. I really don't care. I automatically delete all of those along with all spam that gets past my filters. Then, I get right on to working. I'm sure many people are the same. Heck, I'm using pine on a remove Linux machine to check my mail. There's no way that my home machine can possibly even be infected. Furthermore, like the post suggests is the headers are usually forged these days anyway. It's really quite pointless to reply to the "sender" of the virus. I personally think it's best to turn off the auto-responders. I feel like it's really treated more like spam and not as a useful tool.
just try to split stuff up more, and only back up what you happen to work on that day.
Or, even better, use incremental backup tools. Just make a full backup every once in a while, like once a month or even once a year. Then, do constant incremental backups, which only backup what has changed since the last backup. I unfortunately can't think of any off the top of my head, but I know they exist.
Using the differences in the two species' DNA and a "standard" mutation rate, the scientists determined when clothing-specific lice (and by extention, clothes) came into existence.
The article states that the "scientists" calculated one metronome per 30,000 years and thus concluded that body lice branched off from head lice about 72,000 years ago. What?!?!? How likely is it that mutations really occur on average without much of a deviation from the mean that regularly? For all we know, mutations occur in leaps and bounds. It might be very similar to those annoying studies of amortized cost in my algorithms classes. Sure, great, probability theory is great and all, but what about reality?
So, the question I have is: do you think he was trying to be a good Samaritan and just wrote something that caused serious problems, or do you think he purposely wrote something that would cause problems but would spread wild due to the ostensible good it was trying to do?
Now, let's do the comparison to what I think of as real programming languages such as ANSI C, C++, Java, and Perl and see how much M$'s languages SUCK.
As a former owner of a Zaurus, I just feel like I have to post my rant about it here. Essentially, I hate the Qtopia environment and really, really hope something better comes out. The PIM apps are plain unusable, e.g. when you make a repeating calendar entry, you can't edit only one of them; you have to edit them all! Palm OS doesn't have such restrictions. Sure, I can use another calendar app, but then it can't sync with my computer, and believe me, you really do want to sync when your PDA crashes, and you lose everything on it.
Sharp and other companies are coming out with absolutely incredible PDAs hardware-wise. Unfortunately, they then install Qtopia on it. Ugh.
First of all, I have to say I've always disliked Lexmark printers. They always seemed flimsy, and we had to service them much more than any other brand.
However, I found the price to be right for the Lexmark X125. And, it had exactly what I needed: a low cost sheet-fed scanner.
Sheet-fed scanners are impossible to find for under $200 and are usually only available on massive multifunction printer/copiers. I have to say that this is the only thing that drew me to buying it, and it works OK, as long as you check to make sure pages didn't stick together.
My primary gripe is the lack of Mac support. I haven't even tried to set it up under Linux, as I get the feeling it just won't work. But if you're looking for a super-inexpensive solution, this is it for something that can sit on your desk.
As for something that's network-enabled, I would highly recommend the Canon imageRunner 3300. Our school has been installing these all over the place, and they're very reliable and extremely fast. The scanning and copying abilities are great. Replacing the toner in them is very odd at first, but I've come to appreciate it.
would like to move to Jaguar if the performance hit isn't too great
Seriously, why do you need to use OS X at all? What does it provide you that you can't get in Mac OS 9 currently that you absolutely need? I would seriously sit down and think about that one. Then, I would add up how much it'll cost you to upgrade you Mac to use OS X. Don't forget to include: hardware you'll absolutely need to buy, Mac OS X itself, native versions of QuarkXPress and Photoshop and anything else you might want, and the time you're going to use up upgrading your system and trying to get it to work with Mac OS X.
IMHO, the price is just too high unless you can simply buy a new computer, especially with the time you'll need to put into it.
In case you have no idea what the submission actually says (I must've read it ten times over before giving up), this is the one from the top of the article:
Summary: A pioneering study comparing the genes of 13 species has uncovered clues to how the vertebrate family tree might have evolved. One intriguing result is that primates, including humans, are closer to rodents than carnivores or cows and pigs. Many pieces of DNA that don't even code for proteins in all these species however are conserved, suggesting that even so-called 'junk' DNA may have an important role in biology.
For crying out loud, that GameCube has testicles. Do we really need to link to something like that? And I thought goatse was already bad enough. *shakes head*
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I work providing technical support to at least 1000 people on campus, and lately (over the past two years), I've been seeing a LOT of hard drive failures. Most don't seem to be from people mistreating their laptops by shaking, dropping, banging, etc. Many of the computers never even move away from the desks that they sit on. I fail to understand why they are investing in air bags as opposed to making their hard drives more reliable in the first place. Don't get me wrong...I think this is a great idea, but I think their energy would be better spent in improving the quality of the hard drives themselves.
This is possibly the best product out there even though the code is apparently very convoluted. It is open source, so you can modify it to your heart's delight. We use it for practically every single group that provides support to the different departments. We used to use Remedy, but nearly all of the groups have moved away from that in favor of RT.
Does anyone else notice that it returns 1 of 1 of about 109,000? Where are the other about 108,999 results?
This isn't impressive. Slashdotting Google would be impressive!!!
How long until the first bionic penis? This would really make for some weird sci-fi porn.
Tihs is so finuckg aninnoyg.
knowing Apple, I doubt you'll get Mac OS X to work on it
Totally. Not only that, but I believe this is even against the license that Apple has for Mac OS X. I don't think you're legally allowed to run it on non-Apple hardward. (Someone do correct me if I'm wrong, though, as I'm too lazy to dig up my license.)
I really have noticed a dramatic decrease in the amount of spam I've received in the past 4-5 days.
Wish I could say the same, but I'd say at this point, more than 50% of my spam is in Chinese, though approximately 600 spams in 5 days isn't too bad for me (currently checking spam folders).
Recently, in the past few days, I've especially been getting pounded with virus bounces, virus emails, and virus notices. I really don't care. I automatically delete all of those along with all spam that gets past my filters. Then, I get right on to working. I'm sure many people are the same. Heck, I'm using pine on a remove Linux machine to check my mail. There's no way that my home machine can possibly even be infected. Furthermore, like the post suggests is the headers are usually forged these days anyway. It's really quite pointless to reply to the "sender" of the virus. I personally think it's best to turn off the auto-responders. I feel like it's really treated more like spam and not as a useful tool.
Save the human race! Man your axes!
Oh no, it's the invasion of the cloned trees!!!!!!! Run for your lives!!!!!!
just try to split stuff up more, and only back up what you happen to work on that day.
Or, even better, use incremental backup tools. Just make a full backup every once in a while, like once a month or even once a year. Then, do constant incremental backups, which only backup what has changed since the last backup. I unfortunately can't think of any off the top of my head, but I know they exist.
Using the differences in the two species' DNA and a "standard" mutation rate, the scientists determined when clothing-specific lice (and by extention, clothes) came into existence.
The article states that the "scientists" calculated one metronome per 30,000 years and thus concluded that body lice branched off from head lice about 72,000 years ago. What?!?!? How likely is it that mutations really occur on average without much of a deviation from the mean that regularly? For all we know, mutations occur in leaps and bounds. It might be very similar to those annoying studies of amortized cost in my algorithms classes. Sure, great, probability theory is great and all, but what about reality?
So, the question I have is: do you think he was trying to be a good Samaritan and just wrote something that caused serious problems, or do you think he purposely wrote something that would cause problems but would spread wild due to the ostensible good it was trying to do?
Now, let's do the comparison to what I think of as real programming languages such as ANSI C, C++, Java, and Perl and see how much M$'s languages SUCK.
As a former owner of a Zaurus, I just feel like I have to post my rant about it here. Essentially, I hate the Qtopia environment and really, really hope something better comes out. The PIM apps are plain unusable, e.g. when you make a repeating calendar entry, you can't edit only one of them; you have to edit them all! Palm OS doesn't have such restrictions. Sure, I can use another calendar app, but then it can't sync with my computer, and believe me, you really do want to sync when your PDA crashes, and you lose everything on it.
Sharp and other companies are coming out with absolutely incredible PDAs hardware-wise. Unfortunately, they then install Qtopia on it. Ugh.
Seriously, I open it up, select all the virus emails, delete, and expunge. It's great.
First of all, I have to say I've always disliked Lexmark printers. They always seemed flimsy, and we had to service them much more than any other brand.
However, I found the price to be right for the Lexmark X125. And, it had exactly what I needed: a low cost sheet-fed scanner.
Sheet-fed scanners are impossible to find for under $200 and are usually only available on massive multifunction printer/copiers. I have to say that this is the only thing that drew me to buying it, and it works OK, as long as you check to make sure pages didn't stick together.
My primary gripe is the lack of Mac support. I haven't even tried to set it up under Linux, as I get the feeling it just won't work. But if you're looking for a super-inexpensive solution, this is it for something that can sit on your desk.
As for something that's network-enabled, I would highly recommend the Canon imageRunner 3300. Our school has been installing these all over the place, and they're very reliable and extremely fast. The scanning and copying abilities are great. Replacing the toner in them is very odd at first, but I've come to appreciate it.
would like to move to Jaguar if the performance hit isn't too great
Seriously, why do you need to use OS X at all? What does it provide you that you can't get in Mac OS 9 currently that you absolutely need? I would seriously sit down and think about that one. Then, I would add up how much it'll cost you to upgrade you Mac to use OS X. Don't forget to include: hardware you'll absolutely need to buy, Mac OS X itself, native versions of QuarkXPress and Photoshop and anything else you might want, and the time you're going to use up upgrading your system and trying to get it to work with Mac OS X.
IMHO, the price is just too high unless you can simply buy a new computer, especially with the time you'll need to put into it.
So, I suppose this means the title of Steinbeck's book Of Mice and Men is redundant.
In related news, the bastards at Sprint overcharged me again .
In case you have no idea what the submission actually says (I must've read it ten times over before giving up), this is the one from the top of the article:
Summary: A pioneering study comparing the genes of 13 species has uncovered clues to how the vertebrate family tree might have evolved. One intriguing result is that primates, including humans, are closer to rodents than carnivores or cows and pigs. Many pieces of DNA that don't even code for proteins in all these species however are conserved, suggesting that even so-called 'junk' DNA may have an important role in biology.
For crying out loud, that GameCube has testicles. Do we really need to link to something like that? And I thought goatse was already bad enough. *shakes head*
"This is horrible, this idea." -- Office Space
The real question can the bartender still keep up with my drinking?